Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

all better now, thank you! It was just the one, on the inside of my lip. But ugh it was so grody.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/30/wordsandlanguage?commentpage=all#start-of-comments

these articles make me IA

who wouldve thought poets would be so pedantic and unfunny

I saw a shirtless guy on a motorcycle yesterday. No helmet, either. It always surprises me that IL doesn't have a helmet law.

Or if not Illinois, at least Chicago. Spray paint is illegal here, ffs. Making people wear helmets seems like a no brainer. (har har)

I've been thinking about how NC has more regulations than IL, including

- Helmet law
- Forbidding serving burgers under medium well
- Requiring a class to be a notary public
- State operated liquor stores
- Mandatory vehicle inspections and emissions tests

In Ark., you can be pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt, but we have no helmet law.

I save the day again

People who submit their phone numbers as 5013768111. Put periods, dashes, parenthesis, whatever in there, dammit.

Also web sites that don't automatically tab your cursor to the next field when entering credit card, phone or ss numbers.

Pretty much every website I enter a CC or phone number into tells me to remove the spaces/dashes. Which makes me IA because ffs, that would be pretty easy to code automatic removal of spaces into your website, easier than for a human to type it in without them when their eye is used to them being there.

So maybe they are just conditioned by those.

We have an (xxx-xxx-xxxx) next to each phone number field, AS A HELPUL HINT HINT HINT.

We also ask that the state isn't added to the city's name, but I spend a lot of time going through submissions and deleting all sorts of AR's, Ar's, AK's, etc.

It makes me FURIOUS when after a few washes bright colorful clothes look like they have been in direct sunlight for a month.

AS A HELPUL HINT HINT HINT.

Is this a web form? I get angry when people are viewing data that someone submitted via one and
a. the form doesn't make you do things in a rational manner
b. the system showing you the data that was entered just doesn't clean it up FOR YOU, ffs

It's a web form for businesses to promote themselves on some various lists we have (Calendars, Movers & Shakers, Web Links, etc.)

Granted there's just an open field for numbers, meaning you can type it in any format you desire. But then, I'll have to go fix it and then maybe demote you to Deputy Chief Office Manager out of spite.

you gettin some bertations up in here?!?!

I hate when websites automatically tab me to the next field. Definitely IA.

-- plethora of staples to secure a single sheet of paper to a folder

health issues making me irrationally angry right now. how can i be ill AGAIN? this year has been one thing after another. i get most irrationally angry about things beyond my control (cf technology that inexplicably doesn't work like it should).

also housemates making the kitchen absolutely filthy and leaving it like that.

mystery solved: you're getting sick from the dirty kitchen!

i wouldn't even be surprised

seriously need to move out

I hate when websites automatically tab me to the next field. Definitely IA.

Why?

I copied this in preparation for an "OTM" before I read your post.

Also web sites that don't automatically tab your cursor to the next field when entering credit card, phone or ss numbers.

Though it's not so much that I get very angry if the site doesn't do it, but I am very pleased when it does.

I tab through fields all day, so sometimes I end up skipping over stuff when the site has scripting to move it for me.

Having to press tab after entering your middle two ss# digits is just insulting.

I feel a little like Carrie when the cursor moves to the next field without my pressing tab.

The thing that makes me more IA than anything else.

1. Things that are badly designed. Forms, household items, computer programs etc that were designed and built by people who blatantly won't ever have to use these things.

I think I'm living the same life as Lex, except replace flatmates with girlfriend.

I spend much of my life designing data entry forms, most of which I'll never have to use, and I do think quite carefully about how I think I'd use them, but that never turns out to be the same way as the actual users use them. Ho hum.

(like I spend time making sure everything has a keyboard shortcut and that tab cycles through in a sensible order, and then invariably discover that the end users are terrified of using the keyboard and haven't even noticed they can use these and use the mouse for everything)

age 24 or so is about the last legitimate age to leave dishes unwashed overnight.

i hate it when they lay it out like this:

ADDRESS..............................................................
....................................................................
.............................................................

and then
CITY......
COUNTY....
POSTCODE...

Cos I just filled out all that shit under ADDRESS.

I hate it when they ask for the postcode before the city. No!

age 24 or so is about the last legitimate age to leave dishes unwashed overnight.

this is an unnerving revelation to me.

age 24 or so is about the last legitimate age to leave dishes unwashed overnight.

largely agree but i'm not as irritated by it at weekends, or like, now and again. sometimes people have to eat in a hurry. having said that it might be perverse to say that i fucking hate breakfast stuff left around tho, and above all DON'T LEAVE DIRTY DISHES IN THE SINK, most stupid behaviour of all time.

TBF - our sink is about the size of a small washing up bowl and the second so much as a breakfast bowl gets left in there, it's pretty much full. I'd love some tips on keeping on top of washing up. Especially if your girlfriend insists on somehow using every chopping board, frying pan and obscure piece of cutlery we own. I tried using one of those washing up brushes you can fill with liquid. It works to some extent, but not fantastically. Cutlery is a bitch to wash up too.

more than dirty dishes, a sink filled with water just left to become stagnant drives me crazy.

'd love some tips on keeping on top of washing up

Own fewer things. How many forks does a person need?

our sink is about the size of a small washing up bowl and the second so much as a breakfast bowl gets left in there, it's pretty much full. I'd love some tips on keeping on top of washing up

nothing should ever be left in the sink imo. what's the point? even if you want to do the whole "i've filled this with water" crap then leave it on the worktop, nobody else wants to have to remove someone else's shit to even be able to wash up, it causes a downward spiral.

I'd love some tips on keeping on top of washing up.

Wash whatever you've used, when you finish eating.

Like, there's no "trick" here.

Very occasionally I'll put it off til right before bed but that sucks, obviously, nobody wants to wash dishes when they're sleepy and heading towards bed.

Why?

One, I am super used to tabbing between fields so I invariably hit tab and then end up two fields ahead, and two, if I make a mistake in the data entry, it is hard to get the stupid cursor to stay in the filled out field so I can correct the mistake. Just let me handle the tabbing. I'm a big girl.

And space cadet, I thank you for your attention to detail re: a sensible tab order.

lol I am clearly a disgusting savage because I wash up once a week and I am 34. Mind you I'm not sharing with anyone except my wife so maybe that doesn't count.

Jenny I can see why that makes you IA. Especially: it is hard to get the stupid cursor to stay in the filled out field so I can correct the mistake.

/I'd love some tips on keeping on top of washing up./

Wash whatever you've used, when you finish eating.

The helpful way to put that tip is that you should remind yourself that the chore will only take two minutes and will save hassles and annoyance later.

Definitely irrational is my anger at people who don't tab between fields.

I wash dishes once every few days. I'm a savage.

Me too.

Well I have been pretty good about putting the dishwasher since I got one.

Super irritating right now:

My boss received a draft of a contract from an opposing attorney, which he wants to redline with his changes and comments. Instead of writing them on the document himself, he emailed me the contract and another Word doc containing 2 pages of his changes and comments, which he wants me to type in (verbatim). WHY would he not just write them onto the contract himself?? He knows how to track changes and insert comments! Not only is this unnecessary duplication of work, now I have to email him to straighten out his incorrectly numbered paragraphs.

a;lewjifaewovinwfe;kwef;oi So annoyed!

Definitely irrational is my anger at people who don't tab between fields.

I would sort of like to put you in a room with a certain someone here at work while he attempts to use a computer, just for my own amusement.

xp never mind you are clearly dealing with your own problems.

I'm hiding all but two dishes when I get home. And the bloody pizza cutter too.